Captain Bob Reith made his last flight due to retirement at KLM.

Capetown was his last destination and back homebase Amsterdam.

Bob was joined on this special flight by his girlfriend and also KLM pilot Aninka Ardon.

On his last flight he got assisted by first officer Koen Volkers and second officer Wouter Hietbrink as his “Wingmen”.

Flight KL597 , callsign KLM105-Heavy, stand G9.

The pushback got operated by my colleague of KLM Aircraft Towing Department Jos Vrijburg.

It was a short moment of taxying to N5 for a RWY09 departure.

This flight got operated with a B777-300ER reg PHBVW.

Returnflight KL598,callsign KLM104-Heavy got a RWY06 landing and after vacating taxying for final stand F3.

Bob’s last flight got operated with a B789 Dreamliner reg PHBH.

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